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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Fall on Your Sword

Saul falls on his Sword from

the Worms Bible c1148

Something very unusual happened in Canada the other day. A federal government bureaucrat actually resigned his (lucrative paying) job on principle. Canadian federal bureaucrat, statistician Wayne Smith, resigned from his position in Statistics Canada over coming technological changes to the department:

High-ranking federal bureaucrats don't tend to resign publicly, or on principle. Yet that's just what Wayne Smith did on Friday in a move he described as desperate, and one that's made him, in his words, a black sheep among his peers.

In an interview with CBC News, Canada's former chief statistician says he's at peace with his decision to quit over the federal government's troubled tech support agency, Shared Services Canada, which he says has compromised Statistics Canada's independence.

Smith submitted his letter of resignation to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Aug. 3. In it, he thanked Trudeau for giving him the opportunity to reinstate the long-form census, and then he outlined his reasons for leaving.

On Sept. 15, Smith received two letters. The first was from Trudeau, who Smith said acknowledged receipt of his correspondence and restated his commitment to the independence of Statistics Canada. The second was from Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, who accepted his resignation.

"Well, it told me quite clearly that the government has no intention of changing course," said Smith.

In the olden days...actually, I can remember back a few decades in Canada when, if a leader or a politician failed in a major commitment to the electorate, s/he would "fall on their sword", i.e., resign from their position. If they lost a major vote in Parliament or were beset by personal or political scandal...they would immediately do the honourable thing and resign. This would allow the democracy to move on...and the business of government not to be dragged down by scandal or legal entanglements.

That almost never happens today. Today, no matter how dire the personal scandal, corruption allegations or, as we've seen recently in the Hillary Clinton health controversy...the individual could literally pass out on the pavement during an election campaign....still insist they're in excellent health...then clam up and demand that the electorate "forgid aboud it!" Hillary's legal issues (e-mail scandal) were serious enough for the head of the federal law enforcement agency...FBI's James Comey...to give a press conference where he listed her untruths, but then decided...because she didn't "intend" to prevaricate or subvert standard rules of government confidentiality...he was not going to charge her. Now, we find out (due to even more e-mail revelations) that he has personal connections to the Clinton Foundation and that his brother...does Hillary's tax returns! And this is not a conflict of interest?! Never mind...neither of them resigned and don't intend to.

Why Not? The reason is that, in former times, politicians and bureaucrats resigned because in a democracy...they were considered to be working for the people and if they let the people down they had to resign. Today, there's no democracy. Western states are run by an international Deep State government controlled by the international Rothchild banksters and the MIC (military/industrial complex). Hillary, Comey, et al. don't owe their jobs to the people anymore. They are factotums of the Deep State. All the elections in the West over past few decades have been subverted. True democratic candidates are rarely allowed to gain office. Remember the shock in Minnesota when Jessie Ventura won the governorship? That was probably the last time that happened in the US.

The only reason politicians and bureaucrats have to resign today is if they embarrass the Deep State...or somehow delay or thwart its goals. Then, and only then, the bought and paid for, criminally culpable main$ream media will rise up as one.... like a monster from the "Deep" State and drive them from office.

The same rules apply in international relations. Witness the lack of fall out from the "mistake" the US military made in attacking the Syrian army last weekend, causing mass casualties. Did anyone from the US State Department or Department of Defense/Pentagon resign? Naw....it was bidness as usual. Nobody has ever resigned over the scores of similar "mistaken" airstrikes....from the time the US air force attacked the Canadian armed forces in Kandahar Afghanistan in 2002, through all the friendly fire and fragging incidents of dissidents/whistleblowers, like that famous young football player who was killed in Afghanistan under highly suspicious circumstances...through all the bombings and attacks on civilians in Iraq...through the several air bombings of "Doctors Without Borders" hospitals in Afghanistan and Syria last year...right up to this latest atrocity. How many times have the "gang that can't shoot straight" killed their enemies, called it a "mistake" and quickly moved on? If anyone other than a low ranking patsy/pilot/soldier has ever resigned, it would be an utter shock. Now, they even have vassal states like Australia, Denmark and the UK stepping up and, in a quintessential political "humiliating test of loyalty" offering to share the blame for the latest "mistake". I guess, after the Tarnak Farm Incident, even the US did not have the gall to demand that Canada also make the false confession.

If it were really a "mistake", IMO, Kerry should resign, along with Ashton Carter and Samantha Power...just for a start. In the days of democracy...if it had really been a "mistake" they would all be long gone. IMO, even Russia's Lavrov should consider resigning...due to his perpetual ineptitude in trusting the rogue deep state that is occupying the corridors of power in Washington. He complains about the United States being unable to separate the jihadist terrorists from the "moderate" rebels. Well, Lavrov is just as guilty of not being able to separate the two factions in Washington who are duking it out in a highly dangerous undeclared civil war.

Before any more "peace agreements" are signed between Russia and the US...Putin/Lavrov need to first define and separate the few vestiges of the former democratic Republic of the United States of America--from the current representatives of the dominant neocon, globalist, warmongering MIC/international Rothchild Banksters. Russia should only negotiate with the vestiges of democracy in the US...as rare as these are.

Or, if they fail again, they should seriously consider falling on their swords.

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View from the Crow's Nest

What happened to Kennedy is nearly what happened to me. America is in danger of upheavals. But you'll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They'll do everything to stifle the scandal. They will throw Noah's cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don't want to know. They don't want to find out. They won't allow themselves to find out."

~ French president after returning to Paris from JFK's funeral on November 24th, 1963

- Charles de Gaulle

“If NWO agents cannot use reason to make a point, then they are right: I am their enemy.” Vladimir Putin

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." JFK

Our rights will not fall due to limitations nor will they be abolished by unjust rule. Ali Badwan re Palestine

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'.....the truth is that Western corporate so-called news media are simply this: one giant troll army marching in lockstep with the political agenda of Washington and its coterie of Western allies.' Finian Cunningham...

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” – George Orwell

"Those who stand up for justice will always be on the right side of history." Copied from a protest sign seen at a demonstration in Palestine.

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"Authentic journalism is journalism that tells the people something the government doesn't want them to know." --Gary Webb (1955 – 2004)

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Anyone who relies on the Western media lives inside The Matrix. - Paul Craig Roberts

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